Table 2.
Prevalence (%) of active headache disorder by type and geographical area (estimated in this study and, for migraine and TTH, in GBD2019)
| Headache | Migraine | TTH | H15+ | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GBD superregion | %1 | N2 | Mean (95%CI) | GBD2019 | N1 | Mean (95% CI) | GBD2019 | N1 | Mean (95% CI) | GBD2019 | N1 | Mean (95% CI) |
| Global | 100 | 183 | 52.0 (48.9–55.4) | 35 (32.3–37.7) | 244 | 14.0 (12.9–15.2) | 15.2 (13.2–17.4) | 110 | 26.0 (22.7–29.5) | 26.8 (23.5–30.1) | 59 | 4.6 (3.8–5.4) |
| CEECA | 5.3 | 14 | 53.6 (41.8–65.2) | 41.8 (38.6–44.9) | 18 | 16.6 (12.6–21.3) | 15.6 (13.6–17.9) | 15 | 31.1 (22.8–39.2) | 35.2 (31.3–39.0) | 8 | 5.2 (3.3–7.2) |
| HI | 14.7 | 88 | 51.9 (47.5–56.6) | 43.4 (40.2–46.5) | 117 | 13.7 (12.3–15.5) | 17.2 (15.1–19.9) | 41 | 30.4 (24.4–36.5) | 36.4 (32.4–40.4) | 24 | 3.4 (2.9–4.1) |
| LAC | 7.4 | 24 | 55.0 (44.9–65.4) | 36.7 (33.8–39.7) | 33 | 17.0 (12.9–22.0) | 16.3 (14.1–19.1) | 11 | 26.8 (16.1–39.8) | 27.9 (24.4–31.4) | 6 | 6.4 (5.0–7.5) |
| SEEAO | 27.6 | 10 | 38.7 (20.4–56.5) | 37.3 (34.3–40.4) | 16 | 9.0 (6.0–13.1) | 17.5 (15.1–20.2) | 8 | 11.1 (3.5–19.5) | 27.7 (24.2–31.2) | 5 | 2.8 |
| NAME | 7.7 | 20 | 60.5 (50.9–68.5) | 35.4 (32.3–38.6) | 30 | 11.8 (9.4–14.4) | 16.7 (14.4–19.4) | 19 | 20.5 (14.4–27.8) | 25.7 (22.1–29.4) | 7 | 4.9 (3.0–6.9) |
| SA | 23.4 | 7 | 53.2 (29.0–74.1) | 35.6 (32.7–38.6) | 8 | 22.2 (16.1–27.8) | 15.5 (13.4–17.9) | 5 | 33.1 (20.3–42.9) | 27.4 (24.1–31.0) | 4 | 6.9 |
| SSA | 14.0 | 19 | 43.8 (32.4–55.6) | 27.4 (24.6–30.2) | 21 | 12.4 (9.1–16.8) | 11.3 (9.5–13.3) | 10 | 16.6 (12.4–21.0) | 21.0 (17.9–24.4) | 4 | 6.7 |
1% of the world’s population living in the superregion
2 The global total of studies is higher than the sum of studies per superregion because some studies give data from more than one superregion, i.e. it cannot be assigned to a single superregion
H15+ headache on ≥15 days/month, %: percent of world population, N: number of studies, TTH: tension-type headache, CI: confidence interval (not given when N ≤ 5)
CEECA Central Europe, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, HI High-income countries, LAC Latin America and Caribbean, SEEAO Southeast Asia, East Asia and Oceania, NAME North Africa and Middle East, SA South Asia, SSA Sub-Saharan Africa